Who gave permission for Parliament to close Post Offices next year without consulting the people who use them all the time to collect their pensions?

The weekly visit to the PO means people meet old friends, pay their bills over the counter, do any other business and collect their cash.

They then, in my case at Coldean, along with hundreds of other OAPs and mothers with families, go shopping in the sweet shops, chemists' and grocery shops.

What will happen to these when there is no point in going as they have no cash to spend?

We will have to go all the way to Lewes Road for our prescriptions to be dealt with.

I return home, pay my milkman and have cash in my pocket for when I want to go out. My nearest bank is in North Street, which will cost me 50p each way by bus just to obtain cash.

Some people don't even have bank accounts. We are not like MPs - loaded and most of them driving around in cars. It's easy for them.

So wake up people. Stand up and complain before it is too late, and another precious privilege is lost.

-C Noyce, Roundway, Coldean, Brighton